The University of Michigan Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) works to help the UM community connect with services and resources that support their teaching, learning and research. The TTC is a group comprised of staff from nine units across campus. Since 1997, the TTC has sponsored the Enriching Scholarship program to offer technology training to faculty and instructors, as well as workshops throughout the year. In 2010, Enriching Scholarship was honored by the American Library Association with the Information Today Library of the Future Award.
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Keynote Address, Monday, May 2
Buffet Breakfast and Poster Fair, 9-10 a.m. in the Gallery (Room 1019) of Duderstadt Center
Keynote address presented by Michael Wesch, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center (North Campus)
From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Building New Learning Environments for New Media Environments
The new media environment can be disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information and knowledge. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. This "knowledge-ability" is not simply a skill set as implied by the "21st Century Skills
movement, but a way of being-in-the-world in which people recognize and actively examine, question, and even recreate the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world. Knowledge-ability must begin with the recognition that new media are not "just tools" but new ways of relating to one another that entail disruptive changes in economic, social, and political structures. This presentation explores what knowledge-ability needs to be, why it is important, and how education can and must change to foster the forms of knowledge-building, epistemology, and self-understanding we need.
Buffet Breakfast and Poster Fair
The poster fair highlights the work of the five recipients of the annual Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP), as well as CRLT's Investigating Student Learning (ISL) Grant teams. The event provides an opportunity for the campus community to learn more about innovative teaching strategies and to discuss findings from research on teaching and learning. LOCATION NOTE: The Breakfast and Poster Fair are in the Gallery of the Duderstadt Center and the Keynote Address is in Stamps Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center nearby.
About the Keynote Speaker
Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic.
Visit his Digital Ethnography site for more information about his activities.
Reception: Ice (Age) Breaker, Wednesday, May 4
4-6pm, Exhibit Museum, 2nd Floor, Exhibit Museum Of Natural History (Central Campus)
Join us for a casual wine and cheese reception at the Natural History Exhibit Museum. Mingle with fellow Enriching Scholarship participants and instructors to discuss the week's events as well as trends in higher education technologies. Bring your mobile device, if you'd like, and take part in our social archeology activity.
The museum will be open after hours for us to tour the exhibits. Registration is requested so that we can order food and drink appropriately.
Birds of a Feather, Friday, May 6
9-10:30, 1st floor, Shapiro Library Lobby (Central Campus)
Have you always wondered who on campus is interested in mobile technology, social networking, incorporating clickers into the classroom, or uses of wikis? This is your chance to meet up with others on campus who have similar interests. This event will take place in the newly renovated Shapiro Library Lobby. Feel free to bring projects you are working on to share with others and to get feedback. You will be able to plug your laptop into a screen for projection.
Registration Opens April 4th.